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Heinonen rings the changes

a moment as when Alexander Graham Bell made the first fully intelligible telephone call on 6 March 1876, calling his assistant in a nearby room with the immortal words: “Come here, Watson, I want you.”

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11/21/01, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/12/14, 7:21 AM CET

But Entre Nous cannot let a little moment in European telecoms history go unheralded. On 16 November, Finnish Telecoms Minister Olli-Pekka Heinonen called colleague Anni Vepsäläinen from Japan over the 3G networks NTT DoCoMo and Sonera – the first international call of its kind.

Unfortunately, the Finns didn’t record details of the conversation for posterity.

We only hope it wasn’t “Come here Anni, I want you.” After all, it’s a long way from Helsinki to Tokyo.